Ethos Pathos Logos In Julius Caesar

            Antony appeals to his audience's emotions: horror, sadness and anger, to persuade them to his view.  Antony enters with Caesar's body and shows his lamentation over his death, which reminds the plebeians what a horrible deed Brutus committed.

    Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is a tragic play, where the renowned Julius Caesar is on the brink of achieving total control and power by becoming emperor of the Roman Empire. Ironically enough, when he thinks he is one step away from pulling it off, his "friends" (most from the senate) decide to overthrow him, with Caesar's most trusted friend, Marcus Brutus, acting as leader of the conspirators. Though the fall of Caesar from the most powerful man in the world to a man who's been betrayed and stabbed 30 times is a great downfall, he is not the tragic hero. Shakespeare's main focus is Marcus Brutus, a noble man who brings upon himself a great misfortune by his own actions,

Both Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus are great at using people’s emotions to grab their attention. In Brutus’s speech, he used the feeling of slavery: “Would you rather have Caesar alive and all die slaves, than Caesar dead to all live free men?” Nobody wants to be a slave and would feel angry if they were. Brutus is using this feeling to make it sound like Caesar would have made them all into slaves but because he is dead, they are all free. If one thinks about it some more, the people were like slaves under Caesar’s power. They weren’t free to do as they liked due to the fact that if it upset Caesar, you’d be executed. After Caesar was dead, the people were free to do as they pleased. Brutus used the emotion of anger to show that he killed Caesar so the people could be free of his controlling power.

Julius Caesar by Shakespeare is the most interesting story we learnt this term. It is juicy because there are huge number of different rhetorical devices in the sentence. Those rhetorical devices include logos, ethos, and pathos which look like the condiments that make the speech in the story logical, credible, and touch reader’s emotion. That’s why people love to read the story once and once more. So it is necessary for us to understand how to make our passage better by using rhetorical devices.

Logistics, credibility and emotions are a part of every day in life. In William Shakespeare's’ Julius Caesar logic (logos) credibility (ethos) and emotion (pathos) are used throughout the story in order to reveal Caesar's murderer’s. The main characters are Antony, Brutus, and Cassius. Antony presents a speech and also includes that Caesar was offered the crown 3 times and he refused to be king all 3 times that it was offered. Antony states that he will speak at caesar's funeral, and that is where he reveals the whole situation. He lets everyone at the funeral know exactly what happens. Antony reveals that Brutus and Cassius kill Caesar. Antony uses logic and emotion to show that Brutus and Cassius are guilty of murder.

Have you ever wondered how Antony persuades the crowd towards his reasoning so easily? Did you ever wonder if there was a special technique? In the play “ The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” Antony turns a shocked, confused crowd of mourners into an angry mob of rioters when speaking to them. He does this by using these three persuasive techniques, Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. Ethos is a technique that persuades through ethics and morals, Pathos persuades through emotion, and Logos is a technique that uses logic and reasoning.

If a writer or an orator is capable enough to pick out who his or her audience is, and whether or not they are intelligent, the use of rhetoric could be very beneficial when trying to persuade an audience.   During Brutus's speech he mainly uses logos and ethos while trying to persuade the Roman citizens that killing Caesar was a heroic deed. Brutus used very little pathos during his speech, whereas Antony mainly used pathos to try and persuade the crowd of Romans that what Brutus did was wrong.  

Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”, while surely meant to be entertaining and historically informative, undoubtedly also houses insight into the deep complexity and diversity of human beings. The play shows the constant use of ethos, pathos, and logos in human thought and action. Characters use ethos and logos to persuade in evil ways, which results in the assassination of Caesar and an explosion of pathos. Humans, when doing something unjustifiable will present shaky logic. When a person of high authority or respect does this however, their ethos acts as a shield to their flawed logic making it believable.

He wished the people to feel patriotic so they would agree with him. Brutus declared why he committed the “honorable” act, saying,”Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”(III.ii.L21-22). He said this to appear as a protector of Rome. Antony wanted the public to love Caesar and feel sorrow from his murder. He sparked this when he said, “He was my friend, faithful and just to me.”(III.ii.L86). Brutus raised up the people to make them feel more important, he told them, “Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may the better judge.”(III.ii.L16-17). This made the public out to be smart enough to know what Brutus did was right and just. To compel the public to realization, though, Antony asked them, “You all did love him once, not without cause: what cause withholds you then, to mourn him?”(III.ii.L103-104. Antony asked the people why they stopped loving Caesar when they, before he was murdered, had every logical reason to praise

In 1623, Shakespeare published one of his most famous plays known as “Julius Caesar.” It told the story of the ambitious leader, Julius Caesar, and the betrayal he faced from people that once followed him. In the play, Cassius convinces Brutus, along with many others, to turn against Caesar and kill him before he became too powerful for Rome. After Caesar’s death, Brutus goes to the public and speaks about Caesar’s death in a way that would convince the audience that it was for the best interest of Rome. Despite being hesitant, Brutus allows Mark Antony to speak at the funeral as well, unknowing that he and the other conspirators were going to be forced to flee from angry Romans.

Mark Antony was very good at using pathos in his favor. “my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar and I must pause until it comes back” is one of the ways he appeals to their emotions. Another good example is “you all did love him once, not without cause”. “If you have tears prepare to shed them now” is also a good example of this. He also says many times that “Brutus is an honorable man”. This can confuse you because he talks bad about him then he says the is “honorable”. He does not want them to think he is being mean to Brutus.

William Shakespeare is one of the greatest English writers of time; one of his most famous plays is ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. In the dramatic play, Caesar, the soon to be king, got brutally murdered by the conspirators, because they were afraid he would abuse the power of king. Mark Antony a “friend” of Caesar, then got a piece of power and wanted more. Through the beginning half Brutus seems like a villain, but through the second half Antony turns out to be the wrongdoer.

“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance”(Donald Walters). Julius Caesar was a ruler loved by most people. He was their leader longer than Rome's past leaders and eventually wanted the crown but never showed the people he wanted it. The people and Senate were ready to crown Caesar, but some people were jealous or scared of the power he cold possess if he had the crown. As a result, a group of people formed a conspiracy to assassinate Caesar. Along the story, Caesar was given many warnings about him going to the Senate, which is the place he will die. William Shakespeare’s play of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is centered around Julius Caesar, who is so headstrong on his pride and judgement that he

Finally, Caesar overall proves to be a thoroughly effective and sympathetic tragic hero in this tragedy. Although Caesar’s downfall does seem like deserving and just consequence, it is a much more indefinite case. While Caesar had moments of pompous arrogance, he was also greatly commendable and admirable. He was generally respected by the public and considered a fair and just ruler. Additionally, while many feared that Caesar would accept a monarchial position if offered one, Caesar retained his position in Rome’s government without attaining too much control. Even when Mark Antony presented Caesar with a mock crown during the Lupercal festival, “he put it by thrice, every time gentler than the other” (896). However, the true merit of Caesar is revealed in the speech made by Mark Antony shortly after Caesars bereavement. In a stark contrast of the negative feelings harbored against Caesar in earlier scenes, Mark Antony delivers a eulogy at Caesar’s funeral praising the positive characteristics of Caesar and disparaging the conspirators. In this oration, much about Caesar’s character is revealed thus illustrating him as a more sympathetic hero. For example, Caesar is initially depicted as a more compassionate man by his sympathy to the poor. While it would be expected that Caesar cared little for the destitute, Antony explains “when that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept” (950). Furthermore,